INDIANAPOLIS – During his interviews at the 1999 NFL Scouting Combine, UCLA quarterback Cade McNown unabashedly told teams, including the Bears, that they would be sorry if they didn’t draft him (insert joke here). A year later Tom Brady warned teams they would regret it if he weren’t drafted by them (insert new joke here).
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At the Combine preceding the tackle-rich 2011 draft (Tyron Smith, Anthony Castonzo, Nate Solder) Wisconsin’s Gabe Carimi declared from his podium that he was the best tackle in the draft, which did not find a lot of traction before the Bears took him at No.